Metaceo Mark Zuckerberg saying he regrets caving to pressure from the Biden Administration to censor speech online. Meanwhile, our Commander In Chief is enjoying his second straight vacation. But the white house claims he is still running the country. And this is the big one. Vice president Kamala Harris shocking new flipflop when it comes to the border wall. You will not believe it. Im Kayleigh Mcenany with emily compagno, also joining us fox Business Correspondent gerri willis, Fox News Contributor and boardcertified physician, dr. Nicole saphier, and one of my personal favorites, former arkansas governor and former president ial candidate, Mike Huckabee. So good to have him today. Listen to this. Vice president Kamala Harris now supports a border wall. She backs a plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on trumps marquee border wall. This was a project that harris once described this way. This issue is about a Vanity Project for this president. And it is a problem of his own m
Jackie deangelis are both in new york. Speaking in new york laura engle is on Staten Island where a local Business Owner continues to defy shutdown orders. Well get to that. Start with you, blake, new developments on covid relief. What is the latest . Reporter i believe Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is on the senate floor or headed there. If we have the video and take it connell that would be fantastic. If not literally it is happening as we speak. We of course wait to see what eventually come of this. Live look on senate floor, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Just got there. So were still trying to see exactly what he says Going Forward on a pathway potential covid relief bill. We do know, connell that tomorrow the Bipartisan Group of lawmakers put forth this 908 billiondollar plan will actually release their legislative text. That should have an impact on how washington views that proposal. The president s top Economic Advisor larry kudlow was asked about it earlier
Concerns about jobs and especially about the coronavirus. Well talk about it all. Im connell shane, welcome to after the bell on a friday, and its time for the news thats happening at this hour. Our fox Business Team coverage, blake burman at the white house, Edward Lawrence is in washington, jer true willis in new york. Edward, we kick it off with you and the details on the jobs report. Reporter theres still some growth, plus looking forward to stimulus. Thats what the markets like. In november the economy added 245,000 jobs, almost half as much as the the experts thought. The unemployment rate, though, dropped to 6. 7 , well below what the federal are serve estimated from last summer. Now, the administration saying this is a fundamentally strong economy, and were moving very quickly in the right direction. Listen. President trump has always add slow e candidated keeping advocated keeping businesses open and keeping schools open. Thats very important. All right, thats a good point. So
He is expected as a virus numbers continue to spike around the nation to give an update on operation warp speed and talk about new developments in the race for covid19 vaccine. At the close you look at the numbers, the vaccine helps as well with upbeat corporate profit a rally not far away from a record high, it was flirting with the record, needed to be 470 but lost a little steam in the final minutes of trading, a strong day, the s p that is a recordsetting, closing up by 48point, as it settled in what appears to be the 23rd record close of the year for the s p 500 and we want to monitor the smallcap stocks today and the russell 2000, the russell closing in record territory what is significant for the smaller stocks, the first time in more than two years we have seen a wrestled record, the s p up in the second straight week, adding more than a thousand points. We canoes and big tech brought the nasdaq into the red, those are your numbers as we come to you on a friday, im connell mcsh
We have foxbusiness Team Coverage with blake burman at the white house. President elect bidens transition. Gerri willis standing by but we begin with jackie deangelis. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. History is being made right before our eyes. Dow about 30,000. I think is interesting today, not just the dow but look at the s p 500 on a percentage basis of a little bit more and even the dow industrial. 500 is broader than the dow 30. You can see this was a big broadbased rally across the board. I think that is important. Look at the dow winners because it gives you the sectors, energy is moving today, we see the financials moving higher today. Walt disney is a big winner today but it wasnt just stocks, it was oil as well. Over 45 a barrel, disclosing under that level and it took the Energy Stocks up because the investors are basically betting on recovery for the economy and that means more demand for oil and that means these companies will do better. Having said that, lets take a pause